Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, October 26, 1995 TAG: 9510260078
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-4 EDITION: METRO
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Lindfors died of complications from rheumatoid arthritis in her native Sweden, her daughter, Lena Tabori, said late Wednesday.
Tabori said her mother, who lived in New York, had been in Sweden to do her one-woman production ``In Search of Strindberg.''
She said Lindfors had regretted being unable to attend the Los Angeles Film Festival for the screening of her film ``Summer in the Hamptons,'' which is scheduled for public release next month.
Married and divorced four times, Lindfors often earned attention for her sexual politics and lifestyle as well as for her work. She described her colorful life to critical acclaim in a 1981 autobiography, ``Viveka ... Viveca.'' One of the vignettes in the book humorously describes her, at the age of 54, refereeing a squabble between her 5-year-old granddaughter and a 61-year-old suitor concerning who would get to sleep with grandmother that night.
``I was wild. I was ahead of my time in feeling sexual liberation,'' she said in 1975. ``I married my first husband because the gossips said no man would ever want to marry anyone as promiscuous as I was.''
Lindfors won acting honors at the Berlin Film Festival for ``Four in a Jeep'' in 1951 and ``No Exit'' in 1962. Her other films include ``No Sad Songs for Me,'' ``The King of Kings,'' ``The Way We Were,'' ``Creepshow'' and ``Stargate.''
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